Thought I would make a post again here after reading
DVTimes post about 3D porn and some of the replies.
I hope my insight into some of the aspects of porn is giving some food for thought. Shooting porns no easier today because of the technology. In fact two advantages of cameras today are things that are easy to learn. Focusing and exposure are child's play. Color balance was a bit harder. If you can't get those right the rest is way tougher. In fact shooting good porn today that sells is far tougher.
Saturation of porn has led to models on auto pilot, models in so much demand they think they're in charge, models seeing bad porn and copying it, smaller budgets and bad shooters teaching models bad habits.
Keeping it real.
Porn scenes never were "real" in fact that's the last thing they were, they're fantasies. But a lot of todays porn is so fake it's a joke.
In most cases it's our job to make a fantasy look real enough to convince the devotee it COULD HAPPEN TO HIM. Be it a "Miss World" type getting fucked in a multi million dollar mansion or trailor trash handing out for a hot dog. Or any other scene. We have to make it real enough to convince it really could happen. Even if it's voyeur, it has to look like it's real.
Porn actors can't act. Learned that decades ago and though some scenes require some acting to set up the scene the sex has to be real. So don't let your porn actors fake the sex too much. They usually all end up doing the same old cloned moaning and groaning that all sounds the same. And ALWAYS sounds the same right the way through the scene. Then the fake sentences some actors seem to think are horny and a turn on and the whole thing looks fake. Something reality, Gonzo, POV, Amateur or any porn should be.
Yes I know some girls need to "ham" it up a bit. Some girls orgasm very quietly, some just drift off into their own inner world and both look bad when filmed. But over the top bad acting looks awful and needs to be avoided.
Couple the fake sex and fake set up then the whole thing start to look like just another cloned scene. Especially when in a site full of the same scene and the only thing changing is the face on the girl or guy on gay sites.
All this has to be sorted out during a casting. When a shooter can see if a girl has the personality to bring something to the camera that will make her or the scene sell. We see picture after picture of girls with the poster asking if she's hot. Who sells pictures today?
On the adult Internet we sell videos and the only way to tell if she's got anything to offer is a short video clip of her. Over the years I've shot many girls who were dynamite on stills and shit on video. Also many girls who could never sell on a picture, but really good on video. It's all down to her personality and character. Does she have the ability to bring something to the scene that will make the buyer sit up and get his CC out?
Getting this out of a girl is natural talent. Some girls have it and some don't. All girls react to a camera pointing at them in some way. The more the girl has done doesn't always make a difference either. Shot many top girls who turn on when the camera is pointing at them. And a few who who go into auto pilot when the camera is on. It's the producer's job to get the best out of them. Or send them home because bad scenes don't sell or retain. They piss off members.
I've met shooters who immediately would put a girl on guard and on edge. And I've met some who can disarm a girl and bring out her sexual side easily. It's a natural talent that gets honed over the years.